An artists’ levy on tech would fix the UK’s copyright challenge

The writer is the chair of the DACS, Designers and Artists Selection Association.

Every single working day, the operates of 1000’s of artists, including writers, designers, musicians, painters and performers, are copied. This infringes their copyright. They very own the legal rights to their do the job, but their rights are not enforced and the creators are not rewarded. The value of this is high, but now it is even larger now that Covid has stripped away a lot of of their resources of revenue: reside performances, gallery opening, and several risky careers they depended on. Hence, it is hard for the artist to survive.

Several international locations have now solved this issue Introduction of taxation Reward artists for functions applied by other folks. A compact portion of the invest in selling price of electronic storage gadgets these as smartphones and own desktops is paid to innovative personnel of digital articles that make the Web pretty appealing. Germany, France, Belgium and Italy have some of the most proven taxes, and in truth all European region bar Monaco has this sort of a system. So are Israel and Japan, and additional not too long ago Malawi, Morocco and Tunisia. In all of these places, the artist is copyrighted.

But that is not the situation in the United kingdom. No these mechanism exists here.

It may possibly improve. Smart money are currently being billed as a collaboration in between creators and performers, tech organizations and governments as a immediate way to commit

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Team Lioness: Meet Maasai female rangers who are up to the challenge in Kenya

(CNN) —

Packing her bags to go home for the first time in over four months, Maasai ranger Purity Lakara — who patrols lands in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, known for its free-roaming elephants and views of Mount Kilimanjaro — is overjoyed to be seeing her family for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared.

“I missed eating together, playing and hanging around with my baby girl, fetching water for my mum — even helping my brothers herding cattle. I have missed everything that we usually do while I’m at home,” she says.

Lakara, 23, is one of eight women — the first in their families to secure employment — who make up Team Lioness, a unit within the Olugului Community Wildlife Rangers (OCWR).

The rangers patrol the Olugului/Olarashi Group Ranch (OOGR), a 580-square-mile horseshoe of community-owned land that almost encircles Amboseli National Park, a safari destination 134 miles southeast of Nairobi.

Children run to welcome Purity Amleset Lakara, a member of the all-female IFAW-supported Team Lioness on her arrival at her home village in Meshenani, Amboseli, in Kenya.

Children run to welcome Purity Amleset Lakara, a member of the all-female IFAW-supported Team Lioness on her arrival at her home village in Meshenani, Amboseli, in Kenya.

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When Kenya closed its regional and international borders and the tourism industry and livestock markets on which the community depends disappeared, OCWR canceled all leave and asked its rangers, including Team Lioness, to stay at their posts indefinitely to protect wildlife from desperate poachers. Now that the country is cautiously yet optimistically opening and safari visitors are returning, the rangers are finally able to return to their

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